Madeira Beach Mayor Jim Rostek sent an explosive email when he resigned June 14, alleging corruption from City Manager Robin Ignacio Gomez.
A Florida mayor abruptly resigned after outlining a pattern of 'corruptive behavior' throughout the small town's government in an explosive letter to all its residents last Friday. 'What is going on with this small town is all wrong,' now-former Madeira Beach Mayor Jim Rostek told Fox 13 on Wednesday. 'I am sorry that I have to walk away. It is for my health. Please keep up the fight. I will always try to have your back. Please continue to do what's right.
As well as the everyday wasting of the tax-payers' money and trying to justify it,' Rostek wrote. 'In the end, some will go up to the pearly gates and some won’t. I will always do what is ethical and correct, others not so much.' Gomez allegedly ignored Rostek's requests to establish a life jacket policy, a smoking policy and a formal prohibition on cell phone usage for municipal employees who are operating city boats and vehicles, the resigning mayor claimed.
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